Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758433AbZFBDKM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:10:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755905AbZFBDKB (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:10:01 -0400 Received: from www.crouse-house.com ([199.45.160.146]:44307 "EHLO mail.crouse-house.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755120AbZFBDKA (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:10:00 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 429 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:10:00 EDT Message-ID: <4A24965C.2020901@cosmicpenguin.net> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:02:52 -0600 From: Jordan Crouse Reply-To: jordan@cosmicpenguin.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andres Salomon CC: Andrew Morton , Tobias_Mueller@twam.info, david-b@pacbell.net, gardner.ben@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 001/001] gpio: AMD CS5535/CS5536 GPIO driver References: <17be05570905230453i591eb83bnb359f6365c109718@mail.gmail.com> <20090526151621.a7446c60.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <17be05570905301105h395689ja33afa96e7751381@mail.gmail.com> <20090601165457.a1cc1025.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090601200821.62b04e43@mycelium.queued.net> In-Reply-To: <20090601200821.62b04e43@mycelium.queued.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1284 Lines: 31 Andres Salomon wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:54:57 -0700 > Andrew Morton wrote: > [...] >> Back in February, Andres sent out a patch "cs553x-gpio: add AMD >> CS5535/CS5536 GPIO driver support". AFACIT that patch does the same >> thing that this one does, but differently. IIRC it had a great string >> of weird-Kconfig-related build errors and I eventually dropped it. >> >> What's the story here? >> >> Thanks. > > My story is that I've since switched employers twice since Feb, and will > be resubmitting the patch now that sanity has returned to my life. > I'm planning to get to it within the next week. > > As far as Tobias's driver, one major difference between our drivers is > that mine doesn't grab the entire PCI device. This is because other > drivers (ie, the MFGPT driver) will want to share the PCI device. Also SMBUS. In fact, they *must* share the PCI device if they all want to play well together, so that alone would probably push us toward Andre's patch, once it gets clean. Jordan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/